MAYOR'S VISIT
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ARBURY ROTARY CLUB

The Mayor of Nuneaton and Bedworth Councillor Bill Sheppard  and his wife Jill visited the club on 7 February and he spoke about his charitable appeal during his mayoral year.

Each year the Mayor of Nuneaton and Bedworth pledges their support to a charity (or charities) of their own personal choice.  All monies raised at special events held during the year are donated to "The Mayor's Charity Appeal”.  Councillor Bill Sheppard has chosen four organisations to support during his mayoral year, the main beneficiary being the Mary Ann Evans Hospice.  The other three local charities to benefit are:  The Nuneaton Club 4 Young People (incorporating Nuneaton Boys Club), The Disability Information and Advice Line (DIAL) and Doorway, which is an organisation which helps homeless young people aged between 16 – 25.

Arbury Rotary Club

Community Person of the Year Award for 2007/08

Presentation to Gladys  Barden (Leffy)

Gladys has been in guiding all her life and has helped and inspired many people along the way. She does a lot behind the scenes, that not many people know about, has done a lot of fund raising in the past and still continues with all the proceeds going to charity. She has helped buy camping equipment and has helped the units out as and when necessary.  

            She has great knowledge of the world of Guiding, is extremely popular and is always ready with advice and help if needed. When she celebrated her 90^th Birthday last year many people with whom she had come into contact over the years turned up to help her remember the occasion and to bring back memories from the past.  

            Gladys has taken girls camping in this country and on holidays abroad, and amongst other things has taught them to cook on open fires, helped them to get camping permits and become Queen’s Guides. At the age of 82 she went abseiling up a tower showing some of the younger members of the party how it was done. It is not too long ago that she stopped riding her small powered motor bike around the town. That takes some courage with today’s traffic flows. 

            She is well known around Weddington for collecting newspapers to sell for Charity purposes. She pushes an old pram around from house to house. Takes the papers home and stores them in her shed until she has enough for them to be collected and taken away. She started this long before it became fashionable to recycle. 

            She is still active to this day and attends all the local Guiding District meetings and supports any activities that are arranged.   

            Gladys is a real person of the Community and is a worthy recipient of the Arbury Rotary Club Community Person of the Year Award for 2007/2008     

Christmas Collection at ASDA Superstore

Santa visited the ASDA Superstore again this year to greet their many young customers.

With the help of Arbury Rotarians he was rewarded with useful contributions to help support many needy causes.

An Indian Soiree

Arbury Rotary Club,  in conjunction with the Mary Ann Evans Hospice  Nuneaton on Saturday 24^th Novarranged ‘An Indian Soiree’ evening at the Abbey Theatre, Pool Bank Street, ember.

At the evening youngsters who all belong to the Mrittika Arts Dance School and come from Coventry, Nuneaton and Bedworth performed Classical Indian Dance, Music and songs. 

The dance and musical elements have been specially arranged to interest a wide audience.  Some of the dance styles goes back 200 years. 

The profits from the event were shared between the Hospice and the Rotary Foundation Charities.’ 

The Rotary Club supports charities locally and internationally. 

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Halloween Collection

Over the Halloween period Rotarians from the Arbury Rotary Club held collections at the Nuneaton ASDA Superstore on behalf of the Mary Ann Evans Hospice raising about £1000 from the generous public of Nuneaton.